Wednesday, June 23, 2021

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Have You Heard

  • TweetSuddenly education is THE hot topic. But where there’s heat, light doesn’t necessarily follow. Jennifer and Jack discuss what’s missing from the coverage of the backlash against Critical Race Theory, as well as some stories...

    7 days ago
  • TweetCommunity colleges get a bad rap. But recent graduates of Maryland’s Frederick Community College say that stigma is undeserved. These new and soon-to-be-teachers make a powerful case for learning – and teaching – close to home...

    20 days ago
  • TweetThe public school culture wars are raging more intensely than at any time since the Reagan era. Fueled by intense political polarization and the continued fallout from pandemic school closures, the culture wars now threaten public...

    a month ago

Chicago Boyz

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  • Posted originally on GrrrGraphics.com on JUN 23, 2021 AT 10:39 AM Lori Lightfoot is the mayor of the nation’s third biggest city Chicago.  She’s not fit for the job.  She favors defunding her own police department in a city with a...

    5 hours ago
  • Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics Re-Posted Jun 23, 2021 by Martin Armstrong The founder of Guardian Angels who stood against crime in NYC, Curtis Sliwa, took 69% of the Republican votes which looks like the populism of 2016 all over...

    6 hours ago
  • Armstrong Economics Blog/BigTech Re-Posted Jun 23, 2021 by Martin Armstrong Putin did an interview where he revealed what he thought about Lenin’s entire Communist movement. He made it very clear that Lenin was NOT a statesman but...

    6 hours ago

The BRAD BLOG

  • On today's BradCast, the heat is on. Temperature records are being smashed in the West, and pressure continues to build on two Senate Democrats to take the action necessary to save democracy itself in the U.S. in light of the Trump-induced lurch...

    a day ago
  • IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: First named storm of the 2021 hurricane season makes deadly landfall in the U.S.; New study confirms the U.S. Southwest is much drier than just decades ago; The amount of heat trapped by the planet has roughly doubled...

    a day ago
  • On today's BradCast: With virtually every new voter suppression law adopted by Republicans at the state level since last November's election (there have been about 24 such laws adopted so far, in some 14 states), Democrats and voting rights...

    2 days ago

bluebird of bitterness

BlackListed News

Research Digest

Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places

  • "People don’t come to Denali and other parks in Alaska to look at bumblebees, but they should,” says Jessica Rykken, entomologist for Denali National Park and Preserve. The “Last Frontier” state may be known for supersized wildlife...

    2 hours ago
  • On December 27, 1984, a meteorite was found in the ice field near Allan Hills, a rocky outcrop that protrudes from the blue ice in Victoria Land, East Antarctica. Cosmo-chemical analyses back in the lab revealed a Martian origin. Years later...

    3 hours ago
  • As if ripped from the draft of a lost National Treasure sequel, Times Square Station has a number of fake subway tiles that hide a more sinister design. In August 2017, in the wake of a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia...

    4 hours ago

Accidental Deliberations

  • Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Zania Stamataki warns that we can't afford to treat vaccines as a magic bullet against the dangers of the coronavirus when public health regulations remain needed to limit its spread and...

    3 hours ago
  • Water cats. 

    19 hours ago
  • This and that for your Tuesday reading.- The Canadian Press reports on new Leger polling showing that over two-thirds of Canadians want to see COVID-19 protections remain in place - even as Scott Moe and Jason Kenney barge ahead in slashing...

    a day ago

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